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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2958 Collections and/or Records:

Ecritures: Signes-Peinture-Ecritures Poetiques. No.10 / Pierre Lafoucriere., 1982

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Identifier: CC-13569-13872
Scope and Contents

Edited by Jean-Marc Vincent. The folded sheet is supplement 10. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Ecritures Textiles, 1987

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Identifier: CC-13539-13842
Scope and Contents

Exhibition consisted of calligraphic works by 28 fiber artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Edge / Fencott, P.C.., 1979

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Identifier: CC-11220-11435
Scope and Contents

300 copies were inset into Rawz magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Editions Camomille, No. 13: Sept Ans de Bonheur, 1991

 Item — Box 237: [Barcode: 31858072460375]
Identifier: CC-14353-14662
Scope and Contents

Ben has written on one side of the mylar pages which have a mirror surface so that the opposite blank page gives a mirror, almost 3D appearance, to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Editions Lettrisme et Hypergraphie: Sigillographie. No.2 / Alain Satier ; Jacques Spacagna., 1966

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Identifier: CC-14239-14546
Scope and Contents

Alain Satier later changed his name to Alain Satie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Egg Series: Egg Legs It Right / Furnival, John., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13271-13572
Scope and Contents

Half of an egg shell is depicted on the right side; the caption in bold cursive text is placed in the lower center of the drawing. The word "legs" references the shape on the left that also resembles a knee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: Eggs Sit Left / Furnival, John., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13272-13573
Scope and Contents

Viewed from above, the two parts of the egg shell in this drawing might be interpreted as the thigh meeting the knee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: The Great British Egg Rise (1977) / Furnival, John., 1977

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Identifier: CC-13274-13575
Scope and Contents

The drawing depicts an image of an egg shell with radiating bands as a spoof on the Japanese flag icon of the Rising Sun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Egg Series: Yink Yolk / Furnival, John., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13275-13576
Scope and Contents

Image and caption are a word play on Ying/Yang. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Eight Songs for a Mad King / Davies, Peter Maxwell ; Stow R., 1969

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Identifier: CC-52122-73241
Scope and Contents Wikepedia (abridged): Eight Songs for a Mad King is a monodrama by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies with a libretto by Randolph Stow based on words of George III, written for the South-African actor Roy Hart and the composer's ensemble the Pierrot Players and premiered April 22, 1969.Lasting half an hour, it is scored for a baritone with an extraordinary command of extended techniques covering more than five octaves, and six players: flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet, percussion: railway whistle/Snare drum/ 2 susp.cymbals /foot cyms/ 2 wood blocks / Bass drum/chains/ratchet/tom-toms/tamtam/tambourine/rototoms/toy bird-calls/2tpl.bl/ wind chimes/crotales/sleigh bells/glockenspiel/steel bars/crow/ didgeridoo, piano (doubling harpsichord & dulcimer) and violin cello. The cover shows a famous excerpt in which the staves are arranged in the shape of a birdcage's bars. The eight songs are all based on the tunes played by an actual mechanical organ owned by George III which he used to try...
Dates: 1969

Ein Hund Kam on die Kuche / Tarlatt, Ulrike., 1990

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Identifier: CC-01387-1420
Scope and Contents

One of a pair of almost indecipherable calligraphic drawings held by the Sackner Archive, this one in German, the other in English, meaning A Dog Came in the Kitchen. These drawings were reproduced in Experimentelle Texte No.23, pages 32-33. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990